from an unrecorded attack on the hospital to physical evidence of how the French nearly tipped the battle in their favour in ...

The success of the battle of Waterloo depended on the closing of the gates of Hougoumont. Duke of Wellington A giant Highlander whose ancestors had been Jacobites, Macdonell was the third son of a ...

and eventually joined the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Sgt Clay was one of the allied soldiers who successfully held off Napoleon's forces at Hougoumont. In 1818 he returned home with his ...

a trustee of the Hougoumont restoration project told The Guardian. "We all hear about Wellington’s victory, but it was the guys on the ground that did it.” When was the battle of Waterloo and ...

Four human bones have been unearthed on the dig so far Human leg bones have been unearthed in the first excavation of the main allied field hospital used in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.

Following on from Ligny and Quatre Bras Part II starts by focusing on the concentration of the Allies on the ridge of Mont St Jean and the plans of the opposing armies While the guns of the Grand ...